Patrick Kidd
@patrick_kidd
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Scribbler for whoever will pay me. Author of The Weak Are A Long Time In Politics: https://t.co/zg1eoouBh6. Also churchwarden at @asblackheath
Joined March 2011
RT @spectator: šļø The Edition: Peerless ā the purge of the hereditary peers. šø Charles Moore and @SophiaFalkner on Keirās peer purge.šø @_F_ā¦.
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The Lordās Test starts today and it wonāt be the same without Fingers, a constant presence for 57 years. I wrote his obituary for @ObserverUK. In a lovely tribute @HomeOfCricket have agreed to drape his XXXL MCC blazer over his customary pavilion seat.
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RT @patrick_kidd: Eel Pie Island, in the Thames by Twickenham, was once home to a blues club that hosted the Rolling Stones 24 times. Now iā¦.
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RT @SarahDuggers: @patrick_kidd I used to have a boyfriend who lived there and itās all fun and games until you have to phone in to a new jā¦.
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RT @NewsUKArchives: @patrick_kidd from The Times archive a pic: Duchess of York, with the Duke of York at the Civil service Regatta at Eelā¦.
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Eel Pie Island, in the Thames by Twickenham, was once home to a blues club that hosted the Rolling Stones 24 times. Now it's a peaceful retreat for artists where the public are banned save for a couple of weekends a year. I visited on Sunday and wrote this.
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The rain badly underperformed at Edgbaston. It started well and was building a decent-looking innings but just when you thought it might go on to produce something of substance that might save the match it was gone. Typical Bazball weather. Lasted longer than the top six, though.
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An excellent side sport has broken out at Henley Regatta, where men often outpeacock women: trousers snooker. Is there also a blazer/tie version? Remenham would run up quite a large break just with one pair of socks.
For the start of today's racing, we are beginning a game of trouser snooker! The rules of the game: white (0), red (1), yellow (2), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), and then black trousers (7). Updates to come!.
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God Only Knows, by The Beach Boys, isn't about what you think it's about. My old pal Tom Greeves, as ever, provides the musical analysis that so-called experts can't discern, all while eating a cheese sandwich elegantly.
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I actually made THREE catches in my school career. Though one was for another school after our cricket master kindly loaned me to them. The captain, an Essex colt, hit the ball straight to me, assuming that was the safest place to play the ball and somehow it stuck.
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Last Friday I became president of @OldColcestrians, yesterday @crgscc won their first match at the Royal Grammar Schools Cricket Festival since 2017. A coincidence? Well, obviously. But Iām delighted for them. Must have been inspired by hearing me talk about making a catch onceā¦.
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It was British discipline and drumstick moustaches vs American razzmatazz and pom-poms as seven marching bands of different styles paraded and competed at Hampton Court to close London Band Week. My latest Sketches of London dispatch for ā¦@thetimesā©.
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I thought it was called a blob not a dot.
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Viewed from afar, the Matterhorn looks compact but up close it's "like a croissant; on the surface everything is falling apart". A fascinating and concerning piece by @GWhittell on how the Alps are melting.
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RT @pjmeade: @patrick_kidd @ObserverUK I was saddened to hear that Fingers has gone to the great pavilion in the sky. I first met him whenā¦.
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The Lordās Test will not look the same again. Wrote this @ObserverUK obituary on John āFingersā Fingleton, a celebrated charity auctioneer with loud opinions and louder blazers but whose heart was in the right place. A legend in his own lunchtime.
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RT @patrick_kidd: It takes 20 gardeners, 31 ground staff, 40 physios, 280 ball boys and girls, 300 chefs, 12,000 petunias, 300,000 glassesā¦.
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